''Full Spectrum'' is a series of five anthologies of fantasy and science fiction short stories published between 1988 and 1995 by

Bantam Spectra Bantam Spectra is the science fiction division of American publishing company Bantam Books, which is owned by Random House. According to their website, Spectra publishes "science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative novels from recogniza ...

. The first anthology was edited by

Lou Aronica Lou Aronica (born 1958) is an American editor and publisher, primarily of science fiction. He co-edited the ''Full Spectrum'' anthologies with Shawna McCarthy. As a publisher he began at Bantam Books and formed their Bantam Spectra science fictio ...

and Shawna McCarthy; the second by Aronica, McCarthy, Amy Stout, and Pat LoBrutto; the third and fourth by Aronica, Stout, and Betsy Mitchell; and the fifth by Jennifer Hershey,

Tom Dupree Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...

, and Janna Silverstein.

Volumes

* ''Full Spectrum'' - 1988 ** ''Contents'' *** Introduction – Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy *** Voices of the Kill - Thomas M Disch *** This is the Year Zero - Andrew Weiner *** Proselytes - Gregory Benford *** The Fourth Moxie Branch - Jack McDevitt *** Prayerware - Jack Massa *** Mannequins - Charles Oberndorf *** Moments of Clarity - Elissa Malcohn *** A Gift of the People - Robert Sampson *** The Last Rainmaking Song - Jeffrey J. Mariotte *** Tinker to Evers to Chance - Steven Bryan Bieler *** The Farm System - Howard V. Hendrix *** Ghost Ship - Walton Simons *** Philippa's Hands - Nancy Kress *** Reflections in a Magnetic Mirror - Kevin J Anderson and Doug Beason *** Listening - Ronnie Seagren *** My Year with the Aliens - Lisa Goldstein *** Oz - Lewis Shiner *** Dead Men on TV - Pat Murphy *** Once in a Lullaby - Fred Bals *** My Imaginary Parents - T. L. Parkinson *** Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge - James Morrow *** Beyond the Seventh Sphere - Aaron Schutz *** Magister Rudy - Richard Grant *** The Thing Itself - Michael Blumlein *** Journals of the Plague Years - Norman Spinrad * ''Full Spectrum 2'' - 1989 ** ''Contents'' *** 'Saurus Wrecks - Edward Bryant *** Whistle - Jack McDevitt *** Attitude of the Earth Toward Other Bodies - James Sallis *** Malheur Maar - Vonda N. McIntyre *** The Boy in the Tree - Elizabeth Hand *** All Our Sins Forgotten - David Ira Cleary *** The Painted Man - Joseph Gangemi *** A Plague of Strangers - Karen Haber *** The Giving Plague - David Brin; *** Re: Generations - Mike McQuay *** Silver - Steven Spruill *** As a Still Small Voice - Marcos Donnelly *** Then I Sleeps and Dreams of Rose - Deborah Million *** A Plethora of Angels - Robert Sampson; *** Strange Attractors - Lori Ann White *** Barbara Hutton Toujours - Gay Partington Terry *** The Gamemaker - Carolyn Ives Gilman *** An Excerpt from T''he Confession of the Alchemist Edward Dee, Who Was Burnt in the City of Findias on the Planet Paracelsus, 1437 PIC'' (Post Imperial Colonial Period) - Michaela Roessner *** The Doorkeeper of Khaat - Patricia A. McKillip; *** Dogs Die - Michael Kallenberger *** Rain, Steam and Speed - Steven Popkes *** Close to Light - Charles Oberndorf *** Shiva - James Killus *** Sleepside Story - Greg Bear; *** Frankenstein Goes Home - Alan Rodgers *** The Edge of the World - Michael Swanwick *** The Part of Us that Loves - Kim Stanley Robinson * ''Full Spectrum 3'' - 1991 ** Contents *** Introduction – Lou Aronica *** Daughter Earth – James Morrow *** Dogstar Man – Nancy Willard *** Prism Tree – Tony Daniel *** Desert Rain – Mark L. Van Name and Pat Murphy *** Precious Moments – Kristine Kathryn Rusch *** Lethe – Peg Kerr *** Lake Agassiz – Jack McDevitt *** Transfusion – Joelle Wintrebert, translated by Kim Stanley Robinson *** The Dark at the Corner of the Eye – Patricia Anthony *** Tracking the Random Variable – Marcos Donnelly *** Division By Zero – Ted Chiang *** Matter’s End – Gregory Benford *** Newton’s Sleep – Ursula K. LeGuin *** The Helping Hand – Norman Spinrad *** Fondest of Memories – Kevin J. Anderson *** Loitering at Death’s Door – Wolfgang Jeschke, translated by Sally Schiller and Anne Calveley *** Rokuro – Poul Anderson *** Police Actions – Barry N. Malzberg *** Black Glass – Karen Joy Fowler *** Chango Chingmadre, Dutchman, & Me – R. V. Branham *** Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana – Michael Bishop *** Snow on Sugar Mountain – Elizabeth Hand *** When the Rose is Dead – David Zindell Cover Art by Barclay Shaw * ''Full Spectrum 4'' - 1993 ** ''Contents'' *** Fragments from the Women's Writing - Ursula K. Le Guin *** Motherhood, Etc. - L. Timmel Duchamp *** The Saints - Bonita Kale *** The Best Lives of Our Years - A. R. Morlan *** Embodied In Its Opposite - John M. Landsberg *** Foreigners - Mark Rich *** The Googleplex Comes and Goes - Del Stone Jr. *** The Beauty Addict - Ray Aldridge *** In Medicis Gardens - Jean-Claude Dunyach *** The Woman Who Loved Pigs - Stephen R. Donaldson *** The Story So Far - Martha Soukup *** Suicidal Tendencies - Dave Smeds *** The Mind's Place - Gregory Feeley *** Ah! Bright Wings - Howard V. Hendrix *** Vox Domini - Bruce Holland Rogers *** The Erl-King - Elizabeth Hand *** The Death of John Patrick Yoder - Nancy Kress *** Human, Martian - One, Two, Three - Kevin J. Anderson *** What Continues, What Fails - David Brin *** Roar at the heart of the World - Danith McPherson *** About the Authors Cover Art by SIUDMAK * ''Full Spectrum 5'' - 1995 **''Contents'' ***Simply Indispensable - Michael Bishop *** The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hormebom - Jonathan Lethem *** Evita, Among the Wild Beasts - S.A.Stolnack *** The Music of What Happens - Howard V. Hendrix *** A Belly Full of Stars - Michael Gust *** Cool Zone - Pat York *** Of Silence and Slow Time - Karawynn Long *** The Breakthrough - Paul Park *** Shimabara - Karen Joy Fowler *** What Dreams Are Made On - Mark Bourne *** Which Darkness Will Come Upon Us? - John M. Landsberg *** Wonders of the Invisible World - Patricia A. McKillip *** Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of Tribes of the Pacific Coast - Neal Stephenson *** The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria - Lisa Mason *** When a Man's an Empty Kettle - William Barton *** The Dead Eye of the Camera - Jean-Claude Dunyach *** Tale of the Blue Spruce Dreaming (Or How to Be Flesh) - Jean Mark Gawron *** The Question Eaters - Tricia Sullivan *** Homecoming - Doug Beason *** The Massive Quantities of Ice - William John Watkins *** Hearts and Flowers - Lawrence Watt-Evans *** Goddoggit - Emily Devenport *** Saving Face - Andrew Lane *** Ruby - Alan Rodgers *** Where the Shadows Rise and Fall - Pat MacEwen *** Fountains in Summer - Richard Bowes *** A Fruitful Harvest - Lauren Fitzgerald *** The Ziggurat - Gene Wolfe *** About the Authors Cover Art by Michael Parkes

Awards

Full Spectrum 4, the fourth book from the series won the 1994

World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...

. Several works from the series have been nominated for awards as well. From the first anthology, "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" by James K. Morrow won the 1989

Nebula Award for Best Short Story The Nebula Award for Best Short Story is a literary award assigned each year by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy short stories. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a short stor ...

, "The Fourth Moxie Branch" by

Jack McDevitt Jack McDevitt (born April 14, 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. Most of his books follow either superluminal pilo ...

was nominated for the 1989

Hugo Award for Best Short Story The Hugo Award for Best Short Story is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The short story award is available for works of fiction o ...

and the Nebula Award for Best Short Story; "Voices of the Kill" by Thomas M. Disch and "Dead Men on TV" by Pat Murphy were nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and "Journals of the Plague Years" by

Norman Spinrad Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic. His fiction has won the Prix Apollo and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo Award and multiple Nebula Awards. Pe ...

was nominated for the 1989

Hugo Award for Best Novella The Hugo Award for Best Novella is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novella award is available for works of fiction of between ...

and

Nebula Award for Best Novella The Nebula Award for Best Novella is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy novellas. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novella if it is between 17,500 and 4 ...

. "The Edge of the World" by

Michael Swanwick Michael Swanwick (born 18 November 1950) is an American fantasy and science fiction author who began publishing in the early 1980s. Writing career Swanwick's fiction writing began with short stories, starting in 1980 when he published "Ginungagap ...

in ''Full Spectrum 2'' was nominated for the 1990 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story. "Black Glass" by

Karen Joy Fowler Karen Joy Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation. She is best known as the author of the best-selling novel ''The Jan ...

in ''Full Spectrum 3'' was nominated for the 1992

Nebula Award for Best Novelette The Nebula Award for Best Novelette is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) to a science fiction or fantasy novelette. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novelette if it is between 7,50 ...

and "Matter's End" by

Gregory Benford Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a contributing editor of ''Reas ...

was nominated for the 1993 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. "The Erl-King" by Elizabeth Hand from ''Full Spectrum 4'' was nominated for the 1994

World Fantasy Award for Best Novella In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...

, "The Story So Far" by

Martha Soukup Martha Soukup (born 20 July 1959 in Aurora, Illinois) is a science fiction author and playwright for thMonday Night PlayGroundemerging playwrights group. In 2003, she won their annuaJune Anne Baker Prizecommission. The 1994 short film Override, ...

from that anthology was nominated for the 1994 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and "The Beauty Addict" by Ray Aldridge was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella. "The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom" by Jonathan Lethem from ''Full Spectrum 5'' was nominated for the 1995 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.

References

{{World Fantasy Award Best Anthology Fantasy anthology series Science fiction anthology series 1988 anthologies 1989 anthologies 1991 anthologies 1993 anthologies 1995 anthologies Bantam Spectra books